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Note to moderator: Read answerline carefully. Description acceptable. The NGO Planet of Hopes was founded in the 1990s to raise awareness of one of these events, which was first publicized in the 1970s by a biologist exiled in London. The Bellona Foundation in conjunction with Norway is leading efforts to mitigate one of these events at Andreev (“ann-DRAY-yeff”) Bay. The TORCH report was published on the 20th anniversary (10[1])of one of these events (10[1])that (10[1])led to the formation of a population of mostly-elderly sam·osely (“sahm-oh-SEL-lee”). Many crew members of the K-19 died during one of these events. (10[1]-5[3])One of these events involving a location named “Mayak” (-5[1])near Kyshtym (10[3])(“kish-TIM”) is the (10[1])third-largest ever as measured on a scale called INES. Anatoly Dyatlov (-5[1])was (-5[1])blamed (-5[1])for one of these (10[1]-5[2])events, (10[3]-5[2])whose effects were limited (-5[1])by teams of “liquidators” and led to the establishment of a “Zone of Alienation” For 10 points, in 1986, what kind of disaster devastated Pripyat (10[1])■END■ (10[10]0[1])

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